- Date:
- 1975-03-02
- Main contributors:
- Poynter Center
- Summary:
- The Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics & American Institutions was an endowed ethics research center established in 1972 at Indiana University Bloomington. Through its programming, the Poynter Center addressed bioethics, religion, political ethics, research ethics, professional and educational ethics, technology, and many other areas. Initiatives over the years included courses such as "The Citizen and the News," supported by the Ford Foundation, which began in the fall of 1975 and studied the institutions that produce news and information about public affairs in America. Interview and discussion with Congressman Andrew Young. Young is a congressman from Georgia and a congregational minister who was involved deeply with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. He discusses the role of religion in politics and the relationship between religion and social justice, as well as his relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.